Commands by jetdillo (3)

  • add untracked/changed items to a git repository before doing a commit and/or sending upstream

    I came up with this because I don't have a problem remembering the big major changes I made deep inside my tree for a specific feature or bugfix but always manage to forget the trivial stuff I tweaked or touched along the way that needs to get pushed as well. Show Sample Output


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    git status|awk '/modified:/ { printf("git add %s\n",$3) }; NF ==2 { printf("git add %s\n",$2) }'|sh
    jetdillo · 2012-09-03 00:09:04 6
  • Kill all processes belonging to a user

    Okay, commands like this are a bit of a personal peeve. awk(1) operates on a /pattern/ {action} paradigm and yet I see people leave out the /pattern/ portion of an awk command all the time, opting to use grep or sed instead. You'll save yourself some typing and time if you include the /pattern/ with your {action}.


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    ps wwwwuax|awk '/command/ { printf("kill -9 %s\n",$2) }'|/bin/sh
    jetdillo · 2012-08-14 21:44:38 5
  • extracts 64 bytes of random digits from random lines out of /dev/random sent to stdio

    Use this the next time you need to come up with a reasonably random bitstring, like for a WPA/WPA2 PSK or something. Takes a continuous stream of bytes coming from /dev/urandom, runs it through od(1), picking a random field ($0 and $1 excluded) from a random line and then prints it. Show Sample Output


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    cat /dev/urandom|od -t x1|awk 'NR > line { pos=int(rand()*15)+2;printf("%s",$pos);line=NR+(rand()*1000);digits = digits+2 } digits == 64 { print("\n");exit }'
    jetdillo · 2012-08-14 19:02:00 7

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Replicate a directory structure dropping the files

umount --rbind mount with submounts
Original: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=194342

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

File rotation without rename command
Rotates log files with "gz"-extension in a directory for 7 days and enumerates the number in file name. i.e.: logfile.1.gz > logfile.2.gz I needed this line due to the limitations on AIX Unix systems which do not ship with the rename command.

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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server
Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

find external links in all html files in a directory list
Just a handy way to get all the unique links from inside all the html files inside a directory. Can be handy on scripts etc.

Notify me when users log in
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Simple XML tag extract with sed
Limited, but useful construct to extract text embedded in XML tags. This will only work if bar is all on one line. If nobody posts an alternative for the multiline sed version, I'll figure it out later...

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